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drewprops
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2020-02-03, 01:04

Up until I updated to iOS 13 I was running a script I'd made in the iOS Shortcuts app that stripped out the proprietary Apple News URL and pulled in the true, "raw" link instead. This was for sharing purposes, to obfuscate what I am sharing.

With 13 it appears that Apple is going to war with users like me because that Apple News link is all it's willing to give me.

I'll let you know if I manage a workaround.



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drewprops
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2020-02-03, 08:41

I'm building these shortcuts in the Shortcuts scripting app that Apple makes, if you don't know what I'm talking about.

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Solved, badly:

1. Accepts anything
2. Copy URLs to Clipboard
3. Open URLs in Google Chrome
4. When Google Chrome opens it directs you to Apple's URL shortener webpage. It detects that you're on an iPhone, so you have to hit the CANCEL button in the pop-up asking you to let it open in Apple News on your phone.

There must be a cleaner way to deal with this via scripting, but that pop-up is a road block for me here.


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2020-02-03, 12:45

Here's someone who solved it through scraping / a regex: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/e24...cf7c81581dac09

(via https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/c...applenews_url/)

That approach is more brittle, but probably also much faster.
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drewprops
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2020-02-03, 13:26

Thanks Chucker. I found this or a similar version online but since it isn't in the official gallery of shortcuts I can't install it automatically. Gahhhh!!!!!

Hate hate hate this walled garden today.


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2020-02-03, 14:18

I think you just need to go to Settings, Shortcuts, [x] Allow Untrusted once and then you can just install a shortcut like that as you like.
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drewprops
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2020-02-05, 23:43

Found a different one that does it SO MUCH EASIER than using Regex. Of course I spent a million years studying the other way, to no avail. Still had to adjust it to open in Safari instead. Will try building a duplicate version to open in Facebook next...



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drewprops
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2020-02-06, 11:41

Aaaaaand it largely still does not work with some Apple News stories. The Apple News app is a wall with only a few holes in it.



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